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<h1>TIL F.A.Q.</h1>


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<h2>1. Why is TIL not incorporated to tcllib?</h2>


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There are two reasons for keeping the TIL separate from tcllib.</p>


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  <li>The TIL ships both as a number of packages and as a number
of
stand-alone utilities. Some of the packages are inter-twined with the
packages themselves. For example, the socket client package library can
make direct use of the proxy bridge which is a stand-alone utility.
tcllib hosts packages only, and the inter connection of the TIL
packages and utilities would break this design.</li>


  <li>The TIL is the direct result of a number of research
projects and
making this visible as a separate library was easier than incorporating
it in the tcllib.</li>


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<h2>2. Which platforms does the TIL run on?</h2>


<p>The TIL has been coded in a heterogeneous Linux and Windows
environment. The coding itself has occured on these two platforms, with
daily migration (and thus testing) of the code. Some initial tests have
shown that the TIL also works well on the Mac. I welcome any input on
that platform.</p>


<h2>3. The process package does not work on windows, why?</h2>


<p>This is because the process package depends on separate
binaries
that I cannot redistribute as part of the library. Place the content of
the <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html">PsTools
utilities</a> in the process/bin/windows subdirectory and
everything should be fine. I strongly recommend some of the <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html">utilities</a>
that are made available at <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/">SysInternals</a>
for those of you running Windows.</p>


<h2>4. Which research projects/prototypes has the TIL been used
in?</h2>


<p>Some TIL components originate from <a href="http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw41/frecon.html">WebPath</a>
and its successor, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw46/frecon.html">WebPR</a>.&nbsp;New
components and the extreme componentisation approach came to birth
during the course of the <a href="http://ada.sics.se/newice/archives/000291.html">mBlog</a>
project. At that time, the TIL was not a library per-se and was not
distinctly organised as packages. Putting it all together as packages
occured when working on the <a href="http://ada.sics.se/newice/archives/000751.html">Teknorama
station</a> that was on display at the <a href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/templates/StartPage.aspx?id=13327">national
museum of science and technology</a>
for a number of months. Putting it all together and creating a
SourceForge project around it is a direct dissemination result of the <a href="http://daphne.sics.se/">DAPHNE project</a>.&nbsp;Since then, TIL has been used in a number of prototypes and installations: the <a href="http://www.tii.se/v4m/is/is_info.htm">interactive salon</a> <a href="http://www.sics.se/research/article.php?newsid=608">reuses</a> part of the Teknorama station, the pondcaster (see <a href="http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/EN67.pdf">latest ERCIM news</a>) provides a social and collaborative approach to podcast searching, browsing and consuming.</p>


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